How to Share Live Photos as GIFs on iPhone & iPad in iOS 11

Wondering how to turn Live Photos into GIFs so that you can share Live Photos as GIFs with your friends and beloved ones? Luckily, Live Photos get an update in iOS 11, you can easily convert Live Photos into GIF directly on your iPhone or iPad without using a third party app, and send these animated shots across all platforms without any restrictions. Let's check the details in the following part.

Live Photos, released along with iPhone 6s with iOS 9, is a great feature to combine seamlessly a series photos together, recording a video for 1.5 seconds prior to a still image. It starts when you enable Live Photos mode on your iOS device. But in iOS 9, if you want to export these Live Photos to computer or share them with your friends in original form, you have to convert Live Photos to GIFs via 3rd-party apps, or these Live Photos will become normal still photos.

However, iOS 11, you can effortlessly turn Live Photos into GIFs directly on your iPhone or iPad without the help of a third-party tool. Let's see how to make Live Photos become GIFs in iOS 11 together.

Part 1. How to Turn Live Photos to GIFs on iPhone/iPad in iOS 11

This method will show you how to convert and store Live photos as GIFs on iPhone and iPad in iOS 11. Before getting into more details of this method, please be noted that this solution only works on iPhone/iPad that is running iOS 11, iOS 11.1, iOS 11.2 or later, or you will need a third party tool like Lively (free) to help you out.